ab7rn wrote:
I have lived and worked in Vietnam, Iran (twice), Indonesia, and Singapore. I did not live where all the expats lived, but where the local population lived. I found that people are very much alike everywhere regardless of nationality, religion or ethnicity. The troubles are caused by the radicals and extremists.
I've been around quite a bit, and agree entirely with you. Would add sociopaths to the radical/extremist group.
One of my grandsons, a five year old one, came to interrupt my reading, waving his arms while walking in a sinuous move with bent legs , and said:
"I am an oooctopuss, and am gonna hit you with my eight testicles!"
Struggling not to burst in laugh, I told him that octopuses have tentacles.
He stared at me with a piteous look, and said:
"Gramps, you know nothing about octopusses, do ya?"
I often - not always - hear that Oly E-M5 provides noticeable better image quality than Panny G3. Is this for real? If so, are lenses the reason, or, in other words, both cameras using the same lenses should still show IQ differences?
Thank you.
Health, joy, happiness for you UglyHedgehoggers! And, BTW, vor everybody, everywhere!
The last sentence of my post intended to be ironic.
Clearly, was not taken so. English is not my mother language (Brazilian portuguese is), so the portuguese-english version, straight in my mind, may have lost something. Subjectivity, I suppose.
BTW, if I have someday to reassemble a Madsen machinegun, will do it my own way.
Finding the adequate ammo will be a little difficult (machine-gun 7x57 fmj ammo - loaded to higher pressure than rifle ammo)
Best regards.
Oh my army days... I long for them. Some hard training plus some fun and laugh, and, last but not least, I was young!
But, to the matter. We privates were learning to disassemble-reassemble a rather complicated piece of ordnance, a Madsen machinegun. I figured a way of reassembling the thing that was faster, and asked the instructor, a second leutenant, what he thought about.
He told me harshly to stick to his method, and when I asked why...
"Because I'm a leutenant, and you are a private."
He had a point...
About string/chain stabilizers: A thin - real thin - strip of rubber between a cord loop and an eye hook can be an upgrade of the basic idea. Not only will fit situations where the lenght of the string will ask for compensations in camera height by backbone/knee(*) work, but the even tension exerted by the rubber on the camera makes the stabilization a bit more effective.
(*) My backbone is going fast to useless grade. Don't know if next year I will be able to ride old Tantor anymore...
The rubber thing (no pun intended)is useful for me.
Best regards.
As far as I know, many shops allow a try-time for customers decide keeping or not the camera. In your case I should try the SX50 for a week or so. This picture was taken with a SX50, maximum zoom, 1/160 sec, f 6.5, handheld. Photographer (senior) standing on uneven ground.
http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/3224/img0082hh.jpg
Well, this is not an answer to your question, but a sugestion: Why not a superzoom, in order of a Canon SX40 or SX50? They will give you a max zoom equivalent to 840mm a/f5.6 or 1200mm a/ f6.5.
I once went in a trip like yours, with a relatively light gear: Lumix G3 (micro 4/3) with a 14-42mm, a 50-200mm and a 100-300mm. I lost many shots that sould have been great ones, by not having the right-for-situation lens attached to the camera.
A guy had, at the same time, an SX40. He took as many as twice shots as I did. Later, we compared image quality. I took my hat to the image stabilisation of the little Canon that translated in a high score of keepers. Compared to my camera's shots,a quality difference in favour of G3 started to show up only when applying heavy cropping. But then, at 1200mm, who needs cropping?
Last but not least: Cost. Half the price of an entry 300 for a DSLR, not including the teleconverter.
Best regards.
My deep respect for you, Sir!
Now, the rifle, Bitte!
Domo arigato gozaimashita!
Hmmm... One starts wondering...
Lawyer Max ammo? (buckshot, of course. They are elusive but come close to ya.)
Politicians Max Specials? (.404 Jeffery a minimum during pre-election time. They are hard to stop. Post election, 7mm mag, they are always very far from you.)
Better stop...
Possibly yes. But not as a result of human reason, let alone wisedom, but for sheer objective necessity, as happened many times years/centuries before, in this and other matters...
Here, there and everywhere...
Good, old and healthy sadness has been substituted by depression.